AUSTRALIA
The Age
Police are interviewing one of Australia’s worst paedophile priests over new abuse allegations.
Former Victorian Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale is eligible for parole from late next month after serving a long prison sentence for abusing 30 boys between 1961 and 1987.
Police interviewed the 79-year-old on Thursday afternoon over historical child sex abuse matters allegedly committed in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was working as a Catholic priest.
They were given permission to conduct the interview by a magistrate.
No further charges have been laid at this time, police said.
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